Tag: Priorities

The greatest fear with adding additional and especially third party repos such as EPEL (we did a blog post on how to install EPEL earlier) is that it MAY overwrite base packages and bring the system to an unstable state. We can fix this issue by installing Yum Priorities plugin on CentOS 5: [code]yum install yum-priorities[/code] on CentOS 4 or CentOS 6: [code]yum install yum-plugin-priorities[/code] Then make sure that the plugin is enabled [code]nano /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/priorities.conf[/code] Now there are two ways to do it, either set HIGHEST priority to CentOS repos OR set lowest priority to other repos. This is done by adding the line [code highlight="3"] # N=1 highest priority # N=99 lowest priority priority=N [/code] In this blog post, I will set 1 as the priority (highest) for my…